From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world
Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and historian. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix due Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes a regular column in New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk.
Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world... A powerful - and
entertaining - corrective to the idea that the only hopes that
matter on this planet are those of our own species.
*Observer*
Vesper Flights is a book of ideas and urgent, beautiful writing...
[Macdonald] is a writer whose every word is to be cherished.
*Spectator*
Helen Macdonald is one of the best nature writers now working.
*Telegraph *Books of the Year**
Nature writing at its best... All kinds of wondrous... Each and
every essay reminded me what a gifted writer Macdonald is. Her
prose is poetry but it also has a drenching kind of a clarity. And
this is good because we shouldn't allow ourselves to be lulled by
the sheer pleasure of reading her. For these are urgent pieces
designed to open our eyes.
*Bookseller *Book of the Month**
An antidote to so much romantic, reductive writing about the
natural world... Macdonald's writing teems with other voices and
perspectives, with her own challenges to herself. It muddies any
facile ideas about nature and the human, and prods at how we pleat
our prejudices, politics and desires into our notions of the animal
world... Hers is a gritty, companionable intimacy with the wild...
The essays...are short, varied and highly edible.
*New York Times*
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